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Virtual Event Platform Comparison: 2022 Virtual Event Tech Guide

SpotMe Blog

The timeline for your event or meeting strategy are key as well. a pre-meeting survey. Likewise, with your town hall meeting , you may want a simpler tool. Internal meeting tools. Event tech experts rate the platform highly for its extensive flexibility and navigation options. a calendar invite. an email reminder.

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Silicon Valley-style VC Firm Launches for Event Industry

Smart Meetings

In Silicon Valley, the model is familiar: Get a tech-savvy venture capital firm to invest in you. When I started there were lots of things I wish someone told me not to do,” Topalian, who directed the debut of New York ComicCon in 2006, says. “I They all have to meet minimum investment criteria.

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Collingwood Advisory partners with Event Tech Live (ETL) London to host Roundtable & Meetup for Media Entrepreneurs

Event Industry News

Since 2006, the Collingwood Advisory team has been working with media, events, information and membership entrepreneurs on strategy, scaleup, value creation and M&A. This will allow entrepreneurs to meet and network following the event and exclusive roundtable. Register here.

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Meeting Professional Continuing Education: CMP Spotlights

Smart Meetings

About the CMP Events Industry Council launched the Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) Program in 1985 to provide meeting industry professionals with specialized continuing education. A meeting planner earns their certification through a course of study, an exam and a comprehensive professional evaluation.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Robert Sanchez, CMP

Smart Meetings

He grew up to become one of Events Industry Council’s (EIC) proud Certified Meeting Professional (CMP). But this profession isn’t too far off; he tells Smart Meetings that “the discipline, preparation and vision” present in the fighter pilots of Top Gun are “all essential when leading a team and planning missions – I mean, events!”

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2020 Offers New Thinking on Technology For These 6 Meeting Types

SmartMeetings

Meeting Type Research. According to the 2020 Global Meetings Forecast Report by American Express Meetings & Events, here is the breakdown of the types of meetings and the percentage of time they take place in North America. Meeting Type. Internal Meeting or Training. Senior Leadership or Board Meeting.

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Mobile World Congress: Coronavirus shuts down world’s biggest phone show

Event Industry News

A report from tech news site, WIRED, suggests the GSMA had been calling on the Spanish government to declare a health emergency, meaning it could cancel the show while claiming back insurance. The show has been running since 2006 and was due to take place this year in Barcelona from 24 th -27 th February.

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